Fox guest: “This memorandum of understanding is worse than not having it”

Brian Kilmeade: “I'm just wondering if the people that negotiated this have informed the president about what's in the page and a half he's going to read publicly on Friday”

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From the June 17, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

REBECCAH HEINRICHS (HUDSON INSTITUTE SENIOR FELLOW): One more point, Brian -- on the $300 billion, it is true that it's not going to be American taxpayers that are going to go to this fund, but the language that I've seen of the MOU says that the United States would help essentially get investments in Iran. Remember, Iran has not changed. Iran is still conducting industrial scale executions. They execute minors, little girls as little as 9. So this regime has not changed. It's devoted to the Islamic Republic, and we should not be giving any economic relief until this regime is gone or it demonstrates completely different behavior.

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): And the thing is, everything that you said, I think the president would say. I'm just wondering if the people that negotiated this have informed the president about what's in the page and a half he's going to read publicly on Friday. 

HEINRICHS: Yes, I mean, look, President Trump initiated Epic Fury wing-to-wing with the Israelis. It was brilliant. 47 years of terrorism. Only President Trump finally took the fight to the Iranians, demonstrating incredible military competence, military capability. I applaud him for that. And so, he won the war, but the details of this agreement as we've seen them, it does not look like we are the victors. It looks at best as though it is a tie or in fact that the Iranians did pull some wins out, and there's no reason for it. The United States has the economic, the military advantage. President Trump was right to put the squeeze on them, and he continues to say it's no deal or it's a good deal. And I would just say we were in a much better place before we saw the details of this MOU and unless President Trump can change this at the last minute and get good deals here, I would say that this memorandum of understanding is worse than not having it.

KILMEADE: Right, the next 24 hours he could go in and do that. I hope he does.